New York City sucks when it comes to awarding contracts to women and minority-owned businesses, according to the city…

She may be a British royal now, but Meghan Markle still loves a good, old-fashioned girls’ trip. Ahead of the birth of…

The New York City Commission on Human Rights is taking a major step in ensuring that none of the city’s residents are…

If I had to describe my relationship with Islam in one word, it would be nuanced. Two words? Profoundly nuanced.

When you’re hot, you’re hot. And who’s hotter than Rihanna?

New York City will pay $3.3 million to the family of Kalief Browder, a Bronx native whose unlawful imprisonment on…

For James Harris Jackson, the killing of Timothy Caughman was just “practice.” Jackson, a white man, had traveled up to…

I often jokingly tell people that I grew up in a household made up of three (occasionally four, depending on what…

As the government shutdown rolls onward, inmates at federal prisons have been unable to see their families, attorneys…

As school districts across the country grapple with deepening segregation, Afrocentric schools in Brooklyn, N.Y., are…

It was a story so ridiculous it seemed destined to go viral: A new Harlem resident, a white woman going only by the…

Two New York City boroughs will have streets renamed to reflect their homegrown hip-hop heroes. In a unanimous vote…

With just a handful of days left in 2018, one woman wanted to stake her claim as the terriblest white woman to ever…

The New York City Commission on Human Rights (NYCHR) today announced a settlement that could be a game-changer in the…

Of all New York’s monuments and statues, the best known is probably the Statue of Liberty, the iconic green woman…

I flew to New York City last Thursday for The Root 100 gala and left yesterday evening after a marketing meeting at…

A portion of music legend Aretha Franklin’s extensive wardrobe will be up for auction on Saturday, Nov. 10, at New York…

To examine the injustice and inequality that prompted some NFL players to protest during the national anthem, each…

Over the weekend, videos and photos of the alt-right group the Proud Boys beating up protesters outside a Republican…

Broken Windows, the now-debunked criminal justice theory that provided what many deem an academic justification for…